sum · put, set

What it means

sum (שׂוּם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “put, set”.

Put, place, set; appoint, establish; make something into something.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To put something somewhere.
2. To set someone as leader, or fix something.
3. To turn something into another: "I will turn him into a nation".
4. "Set the face": decide; "set in the heart": pay attention.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Put, place. BDB notes that it is used in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative. From there “establish”, “make something be” and “give” a name.

• To place someone or something in a place Genesis 2:8Genesis 28:18
• To put a sign, to give a name Genesis 4:15Daniel 1:7
• To make someone into something: “I will make him a great nation” Genesis 21:13Genesis 21:18
• To give someone a faculty: “Who gave a mouth to a human being?” Exodus 4:11

How we translate it

“Put” 177 times, “set” 158, “make” 36, “I will make” 32, “laid” 19. It is translated “put” or “set” wherever English allows; when the object is what someone becomes, “make” (“I will make him a great nation”, Genesis 21:18); with a name, and in Exodus 4:11, “gave”. Expressions like “set his face” (to resolve to go) are kept literally.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• put ×177
• set ×158
• make ×36
• I will make ×32
• laid ×19
• lay ×14
• made ×14
• appoint ×8
• gave ×8
• he made ×7
• others ×111

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×47
• Exodus×50
• Leviticus×11
• Numbers×20
• Deuteronomy×24
• Joshua×12
• Judges×21
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×35
• 2 Samuel×21
• 1 Kings×26
• 2 Kings×26
• 1 Chronicles×7
• 2 Chronicles×10
• Ezra×2
• Nehemiah×2
• Esther×4
• Job×40
• Psalms×36
• Proverbs×3
• Song of Songs×3
• Isaiah×54
• Jeremiah×37
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×40
• Daniel×5
• Hosea×4
• Joel×1
• Amos×3
• Obadiah×2
• Micah×8
• Nahum×2
• Habakkuk×3
• Zephaniah×2
• Haggai×7
• Zechariah×10
• Malachi×3

• Genesis 2:8

  And YHWH Elohim planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

• Genesis 4:15

  And YHWH said to him, “Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” And YHWH put a sign on Cain, so that no one who found him would strike him.

• Genesis 6:16

  An opening you shall make for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from above; and the door of the ark you shall put in its side; with lower, second, and third decks you shall make it.

• Genesis 9:23

  And Shem and Japheth took the cloak and laid it on the shoulders of both of them, and they walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned backward, and the nakedness of their father they did not see.

• Genesis 13:16

  I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.

• Genesis 21:13

  And also the son of the slave woman I will make him a nation, for he is your offspring.”

• Genesis 21:14

  Abraham rose early in the morning, took bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and also the child, and sent her away. She went and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

• Genesis 21:18

  Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.”

• Genesis 22:6

  Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. And the two of them went together.

• Genesis 22:9

  They came to the place that Elohim had told him, and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

• Genesis 24:2

  Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who ruled over all that he had, “Put, please, your hand under my thigh,

• Genesis 24:9

  The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his lord and swore to him concerning this matter.

• Genesis 24:33

  Then food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my errand.” He said, “Speak.”

• Genesis 24:47

  Then I asked her and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her hands.

• Genesis 27:37

  Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Look, I have made him master over you, and all his brothers I have given to him as servants, and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. So for you, then, what can I do, my son?”

• Genesis 28:11

  He came upon the place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place and put it at his head, and lay down in that place.

• Genesis 28:18

  Jacob rose early in the morning, took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a standing stone, and poured oil on its top.

• Genesis 28:22

  and this stone, which I have set up as a standing stone, will be the house of Elohim; and of all that you give me I will surely give a tenth of it to you.”

• Genesis 30:36

  And he put a journey of three days between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was pasturing the rest of the flocks of Laban.

• Genesis 30:41

  Whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, Jacob would put the rods before the eyes of the flock in the channels, so that they might mate among the rods;

• Genesis 30:42

  but when the flock was feeble, he would not put them there; so the feeble were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

• Genesis 31:21

  He fled, he and all that he had; he rose, crossed the River, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

• Genesis 31:34

  Now Rachel had taken the teraphim and put them in the saddle of the camel and sat on them. Laban felt through the whole tent but did not find them.

• Genesis 31:37

  Now that you have felt through all my goods, what have you found of all the goods of your house? Put it here before my brothers and your brothers, and let them decide between the two of us.

• Genesis 32:12

  But you said, ‘I will surely deal well with you and make your offspring like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of its abundance.’”

• Genesis 32:16

  He put them in the hand of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me, and put a space between herd and herd.”

• Genesis 33:2

  He put the slave women and their children first, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph last.

• Genesis 37:34

  Jacob tore his garments, put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

• Genesis 40:15

  For I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews, and here too I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.”

• Genesis 41:42

  Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on the hand of Joseph; he clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a chain of gold around his neck.

• Genesis 43:22

  And other silver we have brought down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our bags.”

• Genesis 43:31

  Then he washed his face and came out, and controlling himself he said, “Serve the food.”

• Genesis 43:32

  They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, for the Egyptians could not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

• Genesis 44:1

  He commanded the one over his house, saying, “Fill the bags of the men with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s silver in the mouth of his bag.

• Genesis 44:2

  And my cup, the silver cup, put in the mouth of the bag of the youngest, along with the silver for his grain.” And he did according to the word of Joseph that he had spoken.

• Genesis 44:21

  Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, so that I may set my eyes on him.’

• Genesis 45:7

  Elohim sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.

• Genesis 45:8

  So now it was not you who sent me here, but Elohim; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 45:9

  Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph: Elohim has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me; do not delay.

• Genesis 46:3

  He said, “I am El, the Elohim of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.

And 544 more times.